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The Midnight File
23 killed in Xian bridge collapse
HONG KONG Feb I* A suapenaton n I n MJ wMh
Chinese celebrating the Lunar New Year coDapaed aaar *• ancient city of Xian killing at least 23 people and tapuftag more than 100 others The newspapers. quoting Chase s serai official Hong Kong China News Agency said authorities blamed the accident last Friday on a largr holiday crowd Ura* had crammed the bridge to get a better view of a popular Taoist temple
Xian, a former Chinese capital tn the central province of Shaanxi. Is a popular tourist city famed for Its emperors tomb filled with thousands of Me steed terra cotta wemoes
Iraqi murdered in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO Feb 19 The body of - 34 year old Iraqi Shahn Ahamed was found Monday in a field near Wanduramulla village 22 kilometers (13 miles) southeast of Colombo five days after he was stabbed to death police said Tuesday Ahamed was married to a Srl Lankan woman he had met tn Kuwait The couple who have taro children, tsw to Srl Lanka soon after Iraqi invaded Kuwait tn August last year reports AP
Nujoma reshuffles cabinet
WINDHOEK. Feb 1* Namibian President Sam Nujoma U>-
more ministerial posts to ease the workload of so aw •( Mo ministers At a press conference here. Nujoma said tim mtn* isteries. agriculture, fisheries water and rural development, and education, culture, youth and sports, would be split in two an two new ministers appointed reports AFP
Roh apologises for scandal
SEOUL Feb 19 President Roh Tae woo apologised on rational television Tuesday for a bribery scandal Involving a key aide and parliamentary leaders that has tarnished Ms ad nan Istratton The scandal is the largest and most serious since Roh took office in 1988. It comes as South Korea is preparing for four elections tn the next two years, reports AP
Stoned to death for rape
PESHAWAR Feb 19: Thousands of people watrhed as tribal leaders stoned to death a man convicted of raping a young woman Police dragged Bahadar Khan to a parched plain in the heart of the Khyber pass on Monday where his accusers stoned him until he died, according to the Independent newspaper. The Nation. Khan, trial was conducted by a Jlrgs or council of tribal elders, a traditional law-making body among tribal people where country's legislature has little control, reports AP.
Jackson on US postmark
INDIANAPOLIS (Indiana) Feb 19: American Ctvll righto leader Jesse Jackson 49.on Monday became the first living Black and only the second living person to be honoured on a US postmark. At a postal service ceremony honouring a "Blacks on stamps" scries, the post mar kt he stamp cancellation mark on an envelop- showed Jackson s likeness tn a collage with other Black leaders such as the reverend Martin Luther King, reports Reuter
Four killed in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG. Feb 19: Four people died in unrelated violence on opposite ends of the country. A police report Mid two people burned to death tn a firebomb attack on a house tn the Khayelitsha black township near Cape Town. Three people were injured and 15 dwellings bunted down in the township. Two men were arrested In eastern Natal Province, two^ men died when a group fired on them near Durban, reports 1 AP